Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.

Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence.

Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds. The earth was filled with violence. Genesis 6:117.

Eagerness; vehemence. You ask with violence.

Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility .

Injury; hurt. Do violence to no man. Luke 3:74.

Ravishment; rape. To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder. But, as it seems, did violence on herself. To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.

To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence.